The skin's normal 30-day shedding cycle speeds up to 3 days, and grotesque plaques of dead skin begin to form.

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The drugs are the product of more than three decades of research into EGF, so named for an ability to stimulate the growth of skin (epidermal) cells in normal tissue.

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Because there were very specific legal statutes which discriminated against them based purely on the color of their skin and which made their participation in normal politics impossible.

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In the end, all of the mice exposed to air pollution, including those fed a normal diet, had increased abdominal and subcutaneous (under the skin) fat.

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More significantly, the fact that they do not provoke inflammation means they it might be possible to use them to repair the wounds of patients with conditions such as diabetes, in which chronic skin infections often get in the way of healing when normal stitches are used.

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Hill believes water retention under the skin is a result of poor placental development, resulting in calves being much larger than normal.

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